What might have been a drunken attempt at chivalry landed a Georgia man dressed like a pirate in handcuffs Sunday morning after he threw a teenager from a bicycle and fought him on the Tybee Island pier.

Joe Curtis Chatman, a 40-year-old Avondale Estates man, told police he felt that the 18-year-old, who ran over his female friend’s pirate hat on a bicycle, was being disrespectful.

It’s what allegedly happened next that landed Chatman behind bars on a felony charge.

According to a Tybee Island police report, Chatman threw the 18-year-old from his bicycle, then tossed the bicycle over the side of the Tybee Island Pier and Pavilion. The two got into a scuffle that ended with the wounded teenager taking a knife away from Chatman along with a replica black powder pistol and keeping Chatman at bay with the knife before police defused the situation.

The teenager was treated for injuries sustained in the fight, and Chatman was booked into the Chatham County jail on a felony charge of aggravated assault and one misdemeanor count each of disorderly conduct and public drunkenness.

When police responded shortly before 4 a.m., according to the report, they found the teenager holding the knife at his side and pleading with Chatman to leave him alone. Chatman then tried to swipe the teen in the face, and the teenager drew the knife and told Chatman he would use it to defend himself, according to the report.

The officer removed the knife from the teenager’s hand at gunpoint and ordered him to the ground, according to the report, then secured the teenager, moved Chatman to nearby picnic tables and called for backup.

Once the teen was taken to a better-lit area, officers observed he had blood at various places on his arms, face, neck, torso and shirt, according to the report. Officers and EMS later found what appeared to be a knife wound on the teenager’s hand.

The teen told officers his adrenaline was so high that he couldn’t remember, but thought his hand was wounded while wresting the knife away from Chatman.

Witnesses told police Chatman started the fight and appeared to be jabbing a knife at the teen.

The officer interviewing Chatman noticed an odor of alcohol coming from Chatman’s breath, but could not detect any eye features as “he had contacts to accentuate the features of his pirate costume.”

Police found the pistol nearby with blood stains on the barrel and collected it along with the bloodied knife for evidence.

Chatman, who wasn’t injured, was arrested, stripped of his pirate equipment, which was given to his female friend, and taken to jail where his bond was set at $4,820. The teenager, who lives on Tybee Island, was taken to Memorial University Medical Center for further treatment, and police believe he was acting in self-defense.

The altercation occurred during Tybee Island’s popular annual Pirate Fest, a four-day event that for the most part went well from a public safety perspective, said Tybee Island Police Chief Robert Bryson.

“It was fine,” Bryson said. “Everybody was dressed like pirates this time, but it’s a busy weekend every weekend. It was a little different, but we handle it all the same.”

Bryson said that Chatman’s arrest was the only violent incident of note. There were four DUI arrests during the festival — two by Georgia State Patrol and two by Tybee Island police — but Bryson said that was not out of the ordinary for a busy beach weekend.

“For the most part, the crowd was pretty good,” Bryson said. “Everybody was nice.”